Cooking Quote Quotes

“The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.”
― Ken Poirot

“I’ve sat in restaurants and viewed the food on the plate as I would a half-blooded mongrel. I may feel sorry for it and given time even get to like it a little, but it’s never going to really gain my affections. The plate in front of you should tantalize, seduce and enchant you. It should be a cheeky devil, a minx, a hussy even, but never a desperado”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Ingredients taste as much in the hands of a beautiful ‘angel’ as in the hands of an ugly ‘gorilla’. The face or physique of a cook does not influence the ‘rhyme’ and ‘rhythm’ in a simmering pot.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“These recipes, and my story, are old school because… they will make you feel like you are mixing a recipe with the spontaneity of the act of cooking itself.”
― Alex Guarnaschelli, Old-School Comfort Food: The Way I Learned to Cook: A Cookbook

“What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint.”
― Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

“Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence.”
― Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

“Take two chickens and dress them very neatly. - Mrs Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy”
― Julie Klassen, A Winter by the Sea